The Americas

[Americas In General] [Argentina] [Brazil] [Chile] [Costa Rica] [Dominican Republic] [Ecuador] [Mexico] 

 

 

AMERICAS IN GENERAL

Berryman, Philip. Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (New York: Pantheon Books, Random House, Inc., 1987)

Galeano, Eduardo. The Open Veins of Latin America (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997)

Stephenson, Skye. Understanding Spanish-Speaking South Americans: Bridging Hemispheres (Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 2003)

 

 

 

ARGENTINA

Books:

Foster, David William, Melissa Fitch Lockhart, and Darrell B. Lockhart. Culture and Customs of Argentina (Greenwood Press, 1998)

Jorge Luis Borges.  Labyrinths

Nouzeilles, Gabriela and Graciela R. Montaldo. The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducão, Jan 2003)

Romero, Luis Alberto and James P. Brennan. A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006). Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires: A cultural and literary companion (Interlink Books, 2000)

Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Brooklyn NY/Northampton MA: Interlink Books, 2000)

Films:

Bolivia (dir. Adriean Caetano, 2001)
Cleopatra (dir. Eduardo Mignogna, 2003)
Diarios de motocicleta (dir. Walter Salles, 2004)
El abrazo partido (dir. Daniel Burman, 2004)
El hijo de la novia (dir. Juan José Campanella, 2001)
Hombre Mirando al Sudeste (dir. Eliseo Subiela, 1986)
La historia oficial (dir. Luis Puenzo, 1985)
La vida según Muriel (dir. Eduardo Milewicz, 1997)
Live-In Maid (dir. Jorge Gaggero, 2004)
Lugares comunes (dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 2002)
Luna de Avellaneda (dir. Juan José Campanella, 2004)
Nueve Reinas (dir. Fabián Bielinsky, 2000)
Sol de otoño (dir. Eduardo Mignogna 1996)
Sólo por hoy (dir. Ariel Rotter, 2001)
Todas las azafatas van al cielo (dir. Daniel Burman, 2002)
Un lugar en el mundo (dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 1992)

 

 

 

BRAZIL

Books:

Crook, Larry and Randal Johnson, eds. Black Brazil: Culture, Identity, and Social Mobilization (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999)

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (NY: Continuum, 1970, 1992)

Jackson, K. David, ed. Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Levine, Robert M. and John J. Crocitti, eds. The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, and Politics (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999)

Mainwaring, Scott P. Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1999)

Novinger, Tracy. Communicating with Brazilians: When "Yes" Means "No" (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)

Page, Joseph A. The Brazilians (New York: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1995)

Vianno, Hermano. The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil (John C. Chasteen, ed./trans. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

Wright, AL and Wolford, W. To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2003)

Films:

Bus 174 (dir. José Padilha & Felipe Lacerda, 2004)
Central Station (dir. Walter Salles, 1998)
Cidade de Deus (dir. Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
Four Days in September (dir. Bruno Barreto, 1997)
Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco, 1981)

 

 

 

CHILE

Books:

Brennan, John and Alvaro Taboada. How to Survive in the Chilean Jungle (y aprender los modismos en ingles): An English Lexicon of Chilean Slang and Spanish Sayings (Santiago: Dolmen Ediciones, 1996)

Constable, Pamela and Arturo Valenzuela. A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet (WW Norton & Co., 1993)

Dorfman, Ariel. Heading South, Looking North (NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)

Ensalaco, Mark. Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)

Hite, Katherine. When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 (NY: Columbia University Press, 2000)

Lomnitz, Larissa Adler and Ada Melnick. Chile's Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000)

Nagy-Zemki, Silvia and Leiva, Fernando, eds. Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973 (Sussex, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2005)

Neruda, Pablo. 20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Grupo Editorial Tomo, 1998).

Films:

Cachimba (dir. Silvio Caiozzi, 2004)
Chile: La memoria obstinada (dir. Patricio Guzmán, 1997)
El Chacotero Sentimental (dir. Cristián Galaz, 1999)
Fuga (dir. Pablo Larrain, 2006)
Historias de fútbol (Andrés Wood, 1997)
Machuca (dir. Andrés Wood, 2004)
Mi mejor enemigo (dir. Alex Bowen, 2005)

 

 

 

COSTA RICA

Ras, Barbara, ed. Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 1994)

 

 

 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies (Algonquin Books, 1994)

Álvarez, Julia. In the Name of Salomé (Plume, 2001)

Díaz, Junot. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Trade, 2008)

Llosa, Mario Vargas. The Feast of the Goat (Picador, 2002)

 

 

 

ECUADOR

Lucas, Kintto. We Will Not Dance on Our Grandparents' Tombs: Indigenous Uprisings in Ecuador (Nottingham, UK: Russell Press Ltd., 2000)

Ubidia, Abdon. Wolves' Dreams (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1996)

Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch (NY: Vintage Books, 1995)

 

 

 

MEXICO

Books:

Carlos Fuentes.  The Death of Artemio Cruz

Condon, John C. Good Neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans (Intercultural press, 1997)

Fuentes, Carlos. A New Time for Mexico (Marina Gutman Casta, trans. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996)

Laura Esquivel.  Like Water for Chocolate

Preston, Julia and Samuel Dillon. Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004)

Ross, John. The Annexation of Mexico - From the Aztecs to the IMF (Common Courage Press, 1998)

Films:

Danzón (dir. María Novaro, 1991)
¿Quién diablos es Juliette? (dir. Carlos Marcovich,1997)
La otra conquista (dir. Salvador Carrasco, 1998)
El crimen del Padre Amaro (dir. Carlos Carrera, 2002)
Novia que te vea (dir. Guita Schyfter, 1994)
Amores perros (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
Y tu mama también (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)